FIRST ISCC PAN-CHROMATIC CONFERENCE

Williamsburg, Virginia 12-15 February 1995

The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) is sponsoring the First
Pan-Chromatic Conference, to provide a forum for people in all areas
of color science to come together, to exchange news and ideas about
color measurement and use, and to form a  Color Community that
transcends the traditional boundaries of each area. Presentations will 
cover all areas of color science, with four areas specially featured.
For each of the featured areas, there will be a tutorial overview talk
to introduce the issues of that area to researchers and practitioners
in other branches of color science, as well as selected technical
presentations in the area.  There will be an interdisciplinary session,
and also a panel session to allow focused discussion of the issues.
In addition, the James Bartleson Award will be presented, in conjunction
with an on-site banquet February 14, to Mark Fairchild of the Munsell
Color Science Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Attending this conference will greatly help color researchers who want
to be on the leading edge of the emerging interdisciplinary cooperation
that will characterize the economic climate of the '90s.  This first
Pan-Chromatic Conference will begin a series of such conferences that,
in the future, will highlight other areas of color science and
technology.

The conference organizers are Michael H. Brill (David Sarnoff Research
Center) and Steven A. Shafer (Carnegie Mellon University).  The topics
featured this year will be:
   * Color Vision
   * Colorimetry
   * Color Machine Vision
   * Color Computer Graphics

At the conference, a book containing abstracts of all presentations
will be available.  In addition, a special issue of the journal "Color
Research and Application" will be devoted to refereed versions of the
papers.

ADVANCE PROGRAM

Bartleson Award Presentation (Tuesday afternoon)

  Mark Fairchild (Munsell Color Science Lab):
  "Considering the Surround in Device-Independent Color Imaging"

Color Vision:  Joel Pokorny (U. Chicago), Organizer

  Tutorial by Peter Lennie (U. Rochester): "Mechanisms of Color Vision"

  R. Munger, A. Robertson, G. Fielder (National Res. Council, Canada):
  "Hue-Dependence of Hue Discrimination in CIELAB Space"

  H. Fairman (Metacolor Assocs.):
  "Calculating Rod Participation in Object-Color Matching"

  A. Shapiro, J. Pokorny, V. Smith (U. Chicago):
  "Defining Rod-Photoreceptor Space"

  K. Mullen, M. Losada (McGill Univ., Canada):
  "Band Pass Spatial Processing for Color Vision Revealed by
  Noise Masking"

  J. Barbur, A. Harlow, G. Plant (UK):
  "Insights into the Different Exploits of Color in the Visual
  Cortex." (withdrawn)

Colorimetry: Michael  Brill (David Sarnoff Research Center), Organizer

  Tutorial by Danny Rich (Datacolor Int'l):
  "Color and Light: More than Meets the Eye"

  H. Hemmendinger (Hemmendinger Color Lab):
  "Advances in the Industrial Applications of Colorimetry:  Is the
  Computer the Enemy?"

  M. Veve (HunterLab):
  "The Effect of Measurement Errors on Color Formulation Accuracy"

  R. Alfvin, M.  Fairchild (Munsell Color Science Lab):
  "Observer Metamerism: Precision of Color Matches and Accuracy of
  Color Matching Functions"

  R. Henry  (Univ. S. Cal.): "Colorimetry in the Natural Atmosphere."

Color Machine Vision:  Steven Shafer (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), Organizer

  Tutorial by Steven Shafer (Carnegie Mellon Univ.): "Color in Machine
  Perception"

  B. Funt, G. Finlayson (Simon-Fraser Univ., Canada):
  "Computational Uses for Color"

  A. Petrov (Kurchatov Institute, Russia):
  "Resolving the Color Image Irradiance Equation"

  M. Swain, V. Zanko (U. Chicago):
  "Finding Color Textures in Image Databases"

  G. Healey , L. Wang (U. Cal. Irvine):
  "Illumination-Invariant Recognition of Color Textures"

  C. Wong (NASA):
   "A Real-Time View Invariant Color Recognition Technique."

Color Computer Graphics:  Gary Meyer (Univ. of Oregon), Organizer

  Tutorial: Gary Meyer (Univ. of Oregon), "Color Synthesis in Computer
  Graphics"

  M. Stone (Xerox PARC):
  "Color Applications of Magic Lenses"

  J. Jiang, E. Murphy, W. Truszkowski (CTA, Inc.):
  "A New Tool for Rule-Based Evaluation of Color in Graphical User
  Interfaces"

  R. Geist, S. Junkins (Clemson Univ.):
  "Color Representation in Virtual Environments"

  M. Peercy, D. Baum, B. Zhu (Silicon Graphics, Inc.):
  "Linear Color Representations for Efficient Image Synthesis."

Interdisciplinary Session:  Michael Brill (David Sarnoff Research
Center), Organizer

  S Tominaga  (Electro-Tech. Univ., Osaka, Japan):
  "Surface Reflection Estimation by the Dichromatic Model"

  G. Finlayson, B. Funt (Simon Fraser Univ, Canada): 

  "Optimal Spectral Sharpening"

  A. Gove, A. Waxman (MIT Lincoln Lab.):
  "Color Vision and Multi-Spectral IR"

  N. Liu  and H. Yan (U. Sydney, Australia):
  "Segmentation of Color Drawing and Map Images"

  J. Richardson, I. Davies (U. Surrey, UK):
  "Perceptual Learning of Categorical Color Constancy."

TRAVEL AND HOTEL INFORMATION

Situated 50 miles southeast of Richmond, Virginia, Williamsburg is
served by limousine from airports at Newport News, Norfolk, and
Richmond, as well as by Greyhound bus and Amtrak.  The world-famous
restoration of Colonial Williamsburg is within walking distance of
the Conference: The historic sites of Yorktown and Jamestown are
short drives away.  Room fee includes admission to all historic
buildings, the Royal Governor's Palace, Capitol, the craft shops
and stores, and reconstructed homes.  Free bus service is available.

The conference will be held at the Williamsburg Lodge, with special
conference rates for rooms and suites ($70-80 a night).  
To obtain the special conference rate, make reservations directly
with the hotel at 1-800-447-8679 ext. 5200, or 1-804-229-1000, ext. 5200
before January 13, 1995.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration will begin at 4:00 pm on Sunday, February 12, and
will be followed by a reception at 5:30 pm.  The last session of the
conference will end at 12:30 on Wednesday, February 15.

The conference registration fee is $275 if received by January 13, 1995,
at the following address:

    Dan Walton
    Treasurer, Inter-Society Color Council
    P. O. Box 3709
    Princeton, NJ 08543-3709

All fees include the Bartleson Award Banquet.
After January 13, the fee will be $300.  For an accompanying person,
the fee is $75, and for students $100.  Please make checks payable to
"Inter-Society Color Countil".  Unfortunately, the ISCC is not prepared
to take credit cards; therefore, for attendees from overseas, the fee
may be paid at the time of the conference (but please register now).
Refunds cannot be made after January 13, 1995, and all refunds will
carry a 10% charge for processing.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizers:

  Dr. Michael H. Brill (tel. 609-734-3037; internet:
    michael_brill@maca.sarnoff.com)
  Dr. Steven A. Shafer (tel. 412-268-2527; internet: sas@cs.cmu.edu)

  Local arrangements: Dr. Romesh Kumar (tel. 401-823-2161)

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REGISTRATION FORM for 1995 ISCC PAN-CHROMATIC CONFERENCE

Please print this form, fill it in, and mail with your payment for
conference registration.  As described above, hotel arrangements should
be made directly with the hotel.

Mail to:  Dan Walton
          Treasurer, Inter-Society Color Council
          P. O. Box 3709
          Princeton, NJ 08543-3709
         
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